![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, I got my second copy of the book off the shelf. I also pulled my copy of Moore and Galloway’s book off the shelf, and I’ll get around to re-reading it in the next few weeks. After the release of this movie, he was quoted in several places that it was the first to “get it right,” despite a few changes to historical accuracy to add dramatic “flow” to the story. In the book, he notes that Hollywood had never really made a “true” Vietnam movie to that point. Moore died, I dug out my copy of “We Were Soldiers” and watched it. In this phase of the battle - it continued for several more days involving other elements of the 7th Cavalry - 79 American soldiers were killed and 121 were wounded. After an intense, three-day battle, the 1st Battalion was able to secure their landing zone and exit the battlefield after inflicting enormous casualties on North Vietnamese forces. Moore did not know how vastly outnumbered he and his men were until after they were inserted by helicopter. Moore led his unit - about 400 men - in a battle in which they faced North Vietnamese Regular Army soldiers roughly 10 times their number. Hal Moore had helped develop American airmobile cavalry tactics using the new UH-1 “Huey” helicopter to transport troopers quickly into battle. Moore is best known for his command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965 at the start of direct U.S. ![]()
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